Ex-Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel ‘open’ to Manchester United job with Erik ten Hag decision imminent

Thomas Tuchel is ‘open’ to taking implicit astatine Manchester United if the Premier League giants determine to sack struggling manager Erik 10 Hag.

It appears arsenic though Ten Hag’s aboriginal volition beryllium decided 1 mode oregon different connected Tuesday erstwhile United chiefs stitchery successful London to measure the club’s commencement to the season.

The Dutchman needed a speedy commencement pursuing a summertime successful which the nine approached respective managers astir replacing him.

Manchester United finished eighth successful the Premier League past season and appeared acceptable to sack Ten Hag until helium masterminded an awesome triumph implicit Manchester City successful the FA Cup final.

Several players came retired successful enactment of Ten Hag aft the Wembley triumph but much dismal performances successful the aboriginal stages of this play suggest clip is moving retired for the ex-Ajax boss.

United suffered a harrowing 3-0 decision to Tottenham astatine Old Trafford 8 days agone and past surrendered a two-goal pb successful a 3-3 gully with Porto successful the Europa League.

Sunday’s travel to Aston Villa felt pivotal and a goalless draw was arguably the astir United fans could person hoped for fixed the club’s mediocre signifier and Villa’s sensational emergence nether Unai Emery.

But Manchester United person inactive endured their worst-ever commencement to a Premier League campaign, conscionable 8 points from their opening 7 games leaving them 14th successful the table, 5 points supra the relegation portion and six points disconnected the Champions League places.

Several pundits person called for Ten Hag to beryllium sacked and earlier this week it was reported that Tuchel had emerged arsenic a people for United if they bash opt for a change.

Tuchel – who antecedently worked successful England astatine Chelsea, leading the Blues to Champions League glory successful 2021 – spoke to the Red Devils implicit the summertime earlier United decided to instrumentality with Ten Hag.

The information those talks broke down does not look to person diminished Tuchel’s tendency to negociate Manchester United, however, with the Daily Express saying helium is ‘open’ to taking the job.

He is, of course, disposable aft leaving Bayern Munich astatine the extremity of past season. His Bayern broadside won the Bundesliga rubric successful 2022-23 but finished 18 points down Bayer Leverkusen past term.

United besides clasp involvement successful different managers but the information Tuchel is retired of enactment whitethorn enactment successful his favour if Tuesday’s gathering culminates successful Ten Hag’s departure.

Ten Hag does not expect that to beryllium the case, astatine slightest publicly, and said aft the Villa gully that everyone astatine the nine was ‘on the aforesaid page’.

Asked if helium believed the United owners were inactive afloat down him, Ten Hag said: ‘I don’t person immoderate thought that is antithetic due to the fact that they should person told me. We pass – precise open, precise transparent.

‘I would accidental each time we talk, truthful I expect I volition talk with them. We cognize what we are moving through, it’s a semipermanent process.

‘We person travel done 2 precise pugnacious distant games. This is simply a team, we showed the content and religion we have.’

Another imaginable enactment for Manchester United is club fable Ruud van Nistelrooy, who returned to Old Trafford successful the summertime arsenic Ten Hag’s adjunct manager.

Van Nistelrooy lacks important managerial acquisition but would beryllium a decent enactment to regenerate Ten Hag, according to Sir Alex Ferguson’s erstwhile adjunct Rene Meulensteen.

‘Ruud van Nistelrooy has plentifulness going for him erstwhile it comes to perchance taking implicit astatine Old Trafford,’ the ex-United manager told BoyleSports.

‘He knows the club, helium knows the expectations of the nine and he’s strong-willed with a precise beardown personality.

‘The cardinal is to marque definite that you tin absorption connected the astir important aspects which are getting the squad playing for you, past erstwhile things calm down you tin bash your champion work.

‘When the performances are not going your mode past the scrutiny becomes truthful big. You request to make a beardown civilization with the players and the unit if you’re going to beryllium a success.’

But Meulensteen besides believes Tuchel, 51, has what it takes to ‘deal’ with the Manchester United job and each the pressures that travel with it.

‘Thomas Tuchel is simply a beardown quality and a beardown personality, I deliberation helium has a wide thought of however helium wants to play and I deliberation helium could woody with managing a immense nine similar Manchester United,’ helium added.

‘Messages from managers request to beryllium conveyed to the squad very, precise large and very, precise intelligibly and helium is the benignant of idiosyncratic and quality that could grip a nine the size of Manchester United.

‘He has managed immense clubs and helium knows what the Premier League is each about, the lone absorbing origin is wherefore things didn’t advancement aft helium spoke to the nine past summer. Maybe helium had a fewer questions that weren’t answered.

‘Manchester United is lone astir 1 thing. It’s competing for the biggest trophies and that includes the Premier League and doing good arsenic they tin successful the Champions League, Tuchel has shown successful the past that helium tin triumph trophies.’

With oregon without Ten Hag, United volition look to kick-start their play against Brentford pursuing the planetary break, earlier travelling to Turkey to look Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce.

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